IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
Adaptive Quantum Tomography in Weak Measurement with Superconducting Circuits
Hyeok Hwang, JeaKyung Choi, Eunseong Kim
Abstract
Adaptive tomography has been widely investigated to obtain faster state tomography process for quantum computation. Infidelity [1 − F(ρ,σ)] on nearly pure states in quantum information process scales generally as $O\left( {1/\sqrt N } \right)$, which requires a large number of statistical ensembles in comparison to the infidelity scaling on mixed states of O(1/N). Recently, optimization of a measurement basis in a photonic qubit system, whose state tomography uses projective measurements, reported improved infidelity scaled as O(1/N). However, this dramatic improvement cannot be applied to a weak-value based measurement system, which can be attributed to the fact that one cannot distinguish two quantum states with perfect measurement reliability. We introduce new optimal measurement basis to achieve a fast adaptive quantum state tomography and minimum magnitude of infidelity in this weak measurement system. This novel protocol allows us to accomplish approximately 80% error reduction without changing the scaling of $O\left( {1/\sqrt N } \right)$ in numerical simulations and realize approximately 90% error reduction in superconducting circuit QED experiments.